Ada Yonath

Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate

Born: 22 June 1939, Jerusalem
Died: 31 August 2026, aged 87

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Ada Esther Yonath (née Lifshitz; 22 June 1939 – 31 August 2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

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